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Uncommon Valor - The Recon Company that Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included America's Most Decorated Green Beret (Hardcover)
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Uncommon Valor - The Recon Company that Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included America's Most Decorated Green Beret (Hardcover)
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Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an
advanced Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War.
Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most
covert U.S. military unit in its time and contained only volunteers
from such elite units as the Army's Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and
Air Force Air Commandos. SOG warriors operated in small teams,
going behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia and along the Ho Chi
Minh Trail, tasked with performing special reconnaissance,
sabotaging North Vietnamese Army ammunition, attempting to rescue
downed U.S. pilots, and other black ops missions. During that time,
Forward Operating Base-2's (FOB-2's) recon company became the most
highly decorated unit of the Vietnam War, with five of its men
earning the Medal of Honor and eight earning the Distinguished
Service Cross-America's second highest military award for valor.
Purple Hearts were earned by SOG veterans at a pace unparalleled in
American wars of the twentieth century, with casualties at times
exceeding 100 percent. One, Bob Howard, was wounded on fourteen
different occasions, received eight Purple Hearts, was written up
after three different missions for the Medal of Honor, and emerged
from Vietnam as the most highly decorated soldier since World War
II's Audie Murphy.
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